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    The Twisted History Behind Medieval Torture Museums

    The Twisted History Behind Medieval Torture Museums

    As Albrecht Classen, a professor in the University of Arizona’s German Studies department, explains, many of the supposedly ancient, ironwork torture implements now found in near-identical copies across European capitals were originally created centuries later to feed Victorian England’s appetite for tales of medieval gore and brutality.


    Spanish Arch

    Spanish Arch

    The Spanish Arch still stands today, though in 1755 it was partially destroyed by a tidal wave generated by the major earthquake in Lisbon that year.